Handbag



Patented Aug. 25, 1942 UETEI) STATES PATNT .OFFHCE HANDBAG Rudolph Label, New York, N. Y. Application November 27, 1941,8818. No. dzaezs -2Glaims. (c1. 159-28) This invention relates'to handbags and meth ods of making the same.

One object of the invention is'to provide an improvement in the handbag art so that the decorative appearance and neatness thereof are enhanced and the cost of production substantially decreased.

Another object of the invention is the provision of an improvement in the handbag art such that sewing is reducedto a minimum, and securement of certain parts is effected by tacking or stapling to permit the use of unskilled labor and to increase production.

Another object of the invention is to provide slide fastener extended to permit the manipulation and showing the said openings of'Fig. 8

stitched closed, so that the lining and gussets and projecting slide fastener portions may now be turned into the bag to form the completed handlined are best'realized when all of its features With the aforesaid objects in view, the invention consists in the novel combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described in their preferred embodiments, pointed out in the subjoined claims, and illustrated in the annexed drawing, wherein like parts are designated by the views.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a side view of a device embodying the invention, with parts removedand parts in section. a

Fig. 2 is an end view of the device Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional gusset elements connected to the ends of the upright tapes.

Fig. '7 is a fragmentary view showing the next same reference characters throughout the several and instrumentalities are combined in one and the same structure, but, useful devices may be produced embodying less than the whole.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, that the same may be incorporated in several different constructions. The accompanying drawing, therefore, is submitted merely-as showing the preferred exemplification of the invention.

Referring in detail to the drawing, l5 denotes a device, such asa handbag, embodying the invention. The same may include a wall structure comprising interlocked decorative units such as the relatively rigid elements l6, including lacing or tapes such as I I extending in one or an upright direction and being slidingly connected with or strung through the elements l6. If desired,

the interlocking arrangement may also include While the lacings or tapes. l1 and I8 are strung succeeding step according to which lining members and slide fastener ,stringers are connected to the gusset element's.

' Fig. 8 is a fragmentary view of the next succeeding stage, showing'the lining members sewn together to form a lining pocket, but with openings in the lining seam near the slide fastener. Fig. 9 is a fragmentaryside view illustrative of the structures of Figs. 7 and 8, and showing" the engaged in one direction, and a set of tapes-employed extending in the opposite direction. All

' of these different meanings are comprehended in the term interlocked elements The handbag"!!! may comprise a bag body including a series of closed loops such as l8, each including a series of the elements 18 strung upon' a tape IS, the ends of which are secured or directly interengaged as by a clip or staple 20. Each element may be hollow, and may be in the nature of a small box whose opposite walls |6a are formed with alined holes for the tapes I! and I8. Thus the tapes l8 extend through one pair of holes, and the clip 20 may lie within one of the box-like elements I 6.

A series of the loops l9 may be superposed on each other to form a tubular or cylindrical structure. To interconnect these loops the lacing I1 is strung through the other alined holes in the elements l6 as shown in Fig. 5. To form a closed end for the tube, each of these tapes II is in the form of a. U, being continuous at the bottom at Ila, with free end portions llb projecting beyond the upper open end of the bag body which is thus formed. Obviously, each loop I9 is merely flattened, and in so doing portions of the tapes l8 are exposed at the ends of the bag body. The particular element 6 that contains the clip 20 may lie at any point;

For securing the free end tape portions 1b, devices are employed which may be easily connected to the tapes I! and infolded into the ba body to exert a toggle-like tension on the tapes H. For example, gusset strips 2| of relatively stiff material may be used, one along each side of the bag body. To these gussets, the free end tape portions I'lb are attached or tacked as by clips or staples 22 for rapid production. A reliable and neat structure is obtained by providing a series of spaced holes 23 in each gusset, alined with its respective adjacent tapes I1, and through which holes the latter are passed preliminary to the tacking at 22, as shown. Now, if the gussets 2| were swung downward into the bag body, they would take up any slack in the tapes I1 and tension the same, and the ends or points of the staples 22 would lie protected and concealed between the elements I6 and the gussets. Also the tapes |'I would overlie th upper edge portions of the gussets and press them toward the adjacent elements l6 for a thin and neat structure.

Preferably, a lining 24 is secured to the gussets 2| before the latter are inserted or infolded into the bag body. Thus a plurality of lining sections 25 are separately secured to the individual gussets 2| as shown in Fig. 7, after which these sections are seamed together as in Fig. 8.

Desirably a slide fastener 26 is secured simultaneously with the lining sections 25. For example, the stringers 21 thereof are stitched to the gussets 2| at 28 directly with the lining sections. Suflicient separation or opening of the slide fastener may he obtained by providing an extra length or depending portions 29 of the slide fastener at the slider 36 asshown especially.

in Figs. 8 and 9. The stitching 28 is spaced from the staples 22 so that the latter are normally concealed, as indicated in Fig. 1.

Now th lining sections are seamed together, at the top and ends as at 3|, desirably leaving small openings as at 32 in the lining adjacent to the mouth of the bag, because the overlap reenforcing seam may not be made to the extreme ends. Now the openings 32 may be tacked or otherwise stitched closed as at 33 in Fig. 9. This completes the handbag, and it is now merely necessary to push the lining 25 into the bag body and flex inward the gussets 2| to produce the finished handbag l5. In so doing, the end portion 29 of the slide fastener is pushed down to lie concealed inside of the bag body between the latter and the lining 25 as shown in Fig. 1. Hence the limit of open position of the slider 30 is as shown in Fig. 1.

In Figs. 10 to 12 is shown a modified handbag 35 constructed like the handbag l5 and in a like manner, except that a series of decorative units 36 like those at l6 are disposed along the edges of the bag body, at the bottom and ends thereof. The series of these units 36 may be upwardly extended to form a continuous handle 31. At the bag body the tapes I8 are merely laced through the units 36 as before, but an upright tape 38 may be passed through the units 36 and continuously through the handle 31, with the ends of the tape 38 clipped together as at 26. To conceal or close the hollow units 3611 which form the handle, a lining 39 of suitably stiff material is secured to the handle by cross lacing 4U stapled at 4| as in Fig. 12, with each tape 40 having its own staple lying therein. Desirably, the tapes 40 are completed first, and then the lining 39 is strung through the loops formed by the tapes 40. The ends of the lining 39 may be concealed between the bag body and a lining therein.

Alternatively, the end and bottom structures of the handbag may be arranged as indicated at 43 in Fig. 13, there being provided a strip of relatively stiiI material 44 extending continuously along the bottom and ends of the bag body between adjoining elements 45 which may be like those at l6, and strung on horizontal lacing 46 like those at l8. The upright lacing 4'! for elements 45 may be like that at H, and may be threaded reversely through holes 48 in the strip member 44 as shown to produce a neat decorative effect.

A different finish may be obtained according to Fig. 14, wherein a tubular device 50, having stufllng 5| therein, may extend continuously along the bottom and ends of the bag body, with the lips or flanges 52 of the tube being perforated for the passage therethrough of the upright tapes 53 for the elements 54. In all other respects, the structure of the handbag l5 and its method of manufacture may be employed.

I claim:

1. A handbag having a bag body comprising a series of closed loops, each loop including a series of decorative units and a flexible member interconnecting said units and having its ends interengaged to form the closed loop, saidloops being superposed on each other to form a tubular structure that is closed at its lower end, and a series of upright flexible elements interengaging said unitsand each element extending across the lower end of the tubular structure to thus close the same, so that each element is in the form of a U, gusset strips connected to the upper end portions of each element and lying within the bag body, and a lining secured to the gusset strips to depend therefrom in the bag body.

2. A handbag having a bag body including interengaged decorative units comprising tapes for said units extending to the mouth of the bag body, each of said tapes extending continuously around the bottom of the bag body, and means at the mouth of the latter for securing the tapes, one of the tapes and its units forming a loop extending continuously along the bottom and ,ends of the bag body and projecting above the latter to form a handle for the bag body, said tape being laced through the units of said loop.

RUDOLPH LOBEL. 

